DOI: 10.4324/9781003349303-2 1 Introduction 1.1 Lexical and Compositional Semantics What do speakers know about word meaning? The answer is “a lot.” This book is an investigation of such rich knowledge, called lexical semantics, from a theoretical perspective. A common practice in the scientific study of lin- guistic meaning, semantics, is to draw a line between lexical and compositional ...
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